Comite International des Musees et Collections d'Instruments de Musique Comite Internacional de Museos y Colecciones de Instrumentos Musicales CIMCIM International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections President Dr Eszter Fontana, Director, Musikinstrumenten-Museum der Universitiit Leipzig, Tiiubchenweg 2c, Leipzig D-04103, Gennany. Telephone +49 341 2142121. Fax +49 341 2142135. E-mail
[email protected] Vice President Sumi Gunji, Professor Emeritus, Kunitachi College of Music, 1-7-7 Ikebukuro, 170 Toshima-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Telephone and fax +81 3 5396 5183. E-mail
[email protected] Secretary Corinna Weinheimer, Ringve Museum, Pb 3064 Lade, N-7441 Trondheim, Norway. Telephone +47 7392 2411. Fax +47 7392 0422. E-mail
[email protected] Treasurer Margaret Birley, Department of Musical Instruments, Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, London, SE23 3PQ, UK. Telephone +44 208 699 1872. Fax +44 208 291 5506. E-mail
[email protected] World-Wide Web URL: http:Jiwww.icom.org/cimciml Bulletin No. 41 March - mars 2000 Announcements Canadian Conservation Institute, Ottawa Report from Bob Barclay: CIMCIM wishes to congratulate Dr John Henry I have been relatively invisible for a considerable van der Meer on his 80th birthday in February. time as I have been in the last stages of my PhD, John Henry van der Meer was one of the founders which is now completed. The dissertation examines of CIMCIM and we are most grateful to him for all the antagonism that has grown up between the wonderful work he has done in the course of restoration and conservation, describes a new his career.